Name: To Zenzi (Awp Award Series for the Novel)
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Author: Robert L. Shuster
ISBN: 9781936970698

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To Zenzi (Awp Award Series for the Novel)

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

New Issues Poetry And Prose

Author

Robert L. Shuster

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

344

ISBN13

9781936970698

Synopsis "To Zenzi (Awp Award Series for the Novel) "

To Zenzi is the extraordinary story of Tobias Koertig’s odyssey through the apocalypse of Berlin in 1945. An orphaned thirteen-year-old who loves to draw, Tobias is coerced into joining the German youth army in the last desperate weeks of the war. Mistaken for a hero on the Eastern Front, he receives an Iron Cross from Hitler himself, who discovers the boy’s cartoons and appoints Tobias to sketch pictures of the ruined city. Shuttling between the insanity of the Führer’s bunker and the chaotic streets, Tobias must contend with a scheming Martin Bormann, a deceitful deserter, the Russian onslaught, and his own compounding despair—all while falling for Zenzi, a girl of Jewish descent (a mischling) who relays secret news of death camps and convinces Tobias to make a treacherous escape to the Americans. With thrilling risks in plotting and prose, with moments of pathos and absurdity, Shuster richly conjures a mad, tragic world.